One in 4 Children Believes it is Against the Law for Women, African Americans, or Latinos to be Prez

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However, most children also attributed the lack of female, African American, and Latino presidents to gender and racial discrimination. In the year prior to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s bids to become the Democratic nominee, researchers interviewed children between five and ten years of age from various ethnic and racial backgrounds to assess their knowledge of and attributions for the lack of female, African American, and Latino presidents. The study found that most children endorsed the belief that the presidency should be filled by people of both genders and diverse races and ethnicities, although the majority also believed that women and people of color have been intentionally excluded from the role.

“There has been an incredible level of racial and gender exclusion for the office of presidency, and most children are aware of it, but they don't really understand why,” Bigler tells The Daily Galaxy. “When they see a poster with all of the presidents and every single one of them is a white male, they naturally come up with their own explanation for it since no one talks to them about it. Sometimes the explanations they come up with are completely wrong, and in other instances the explanations they come up with are not too far off, such as when a little girl explains that there has never been a woman president because, ‘boys won't vote for girls’.”

more:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/10/one-in-four-chi.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. Let me guess. Would that be the kids of the 25% who still admit to supporting Bush? ~nt~